Maarten van Buuren
Lecturer
- Name
- Mr. M.P.P. van Buuren
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- m.p.p.van.buuren@law.leidenuniv.nl
Maarten van Buuren has been a part-time lecturer in corporate and company law within the Company Law and Financial Law Department (Institute of Private Law) since September 2013. He has over 20 years' experience as a business lawyer and is a Partner at the firm WLP-Law in Amsterdam.
Maarten has been an attorney-at-law since 1995. He is an experienced corporate lawyer, a creative thinker and advisor. He joined his firm WLP-Law in 2013. He advises and litigates, has broad expertise in the field of commercial contracting and corporate law. Maarten is also a non-executive director at 'Portwise' (Rijswijk) since 2022. He has extensive experience in M&A, shareholder disputes, directors' liability cases and corporate / commercial litigation.
He teaches in the master's programme in Corporate Law (topics include 'Mergers & Acquisitions', 'Privatissimum F&O'), he is Coordinator for Internships in the master's, and he supervises students in writing their master's and/or bachelor's theses. He was also involved in the 'Legal Business Game' (2022). He has published several articles and is co-author and editor of the handbook 'Bedrijfsovername' (Kluwer, October 2023).
Maarten has been admitted to practise as a lawyer since 1995: in 1995 in St. Maarten, Dutch Antilles, and since 1998 as a lawyer in the Netherlands (Amsterdam).
Education: Master of Laws (J.D.), Leiden University, the Netherlands, 1993. Post doc: Mergers & Acquisitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2002). Maarten is a member of the Dutch Bar Association, the International Bar Association (IBA), the Corporate Litigation Association (VCL) and the Commercial Law Association. Maarten speaks fluent English and reasonable Italian.
Lecturer
- Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Private Law
- Company Law
- Buuren M.P.P. van (2025), Precontractuele fase en onderhandelingsfase: kip of ei? Een beschouwing over de precontractuele fase, de onderhandelingsfase en de redelijkheid en billijkheid. In: Pool J.M.W., Koster H., Adriaanse J.A.A. & Boon J.M.G.J. (Eds.), Insolventie in context: een eerbetoon aan prof. Reinout Vriesendorp. Den Haag: Wolters Kluwer. 45-57.
- Buuren M.P.P. van & Koster H. (Eds.) (2023), Bedrijfsovername. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer.
- Buuren M.P.P. van (2023), Overnamemethoden en fusieproces. In: Buuren M.P.P. van & Koster H. (Eds.), Bedrijfsovername. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer. 1-19.
- Buuren M.P.P. van (2023), De Precontractuele Fase. In: Buuren M.P.P. van & Koster H. (Eds.), Bedrijfsovername. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer. 101-115.
- Buuren M.P.P. van & Benten Y.P.W. van (2023), De Overnameovereenkomst. In: Buuren M.P.P. van & Koster H. (Eds.), Bedrijfsovername. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer. 195-231.
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